linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Move check for SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE to do_shrink

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Date:   Fri, 3 Aug 2018 10:11:32 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, jbacik@...com,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Move check for SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE to
 do_shrink_slab()

On 02.08.2018 20:26, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:47 AM Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:00 AM, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>> In case of shrink_slab_memcg() we do not zero nid, when shrinker
>>>> is not numa-aware. This is not a real problem, since currently
>>>> all memcg-aware shrinkers are numa-aware too (we have two:
>>>
>>> Actually, this is not true. huge_zero_page_shrinker is NOT numa-aware.
>>> deferred_split_shrinker is numa-aware.
>>>
>>
>> But both huge_zero_page_shrinker and huge_zero_page_shrinker are not
>> memcg-aware shrinkers. I think Kirill is saying all memcg-aware
>> shrinkers are also numa-aware shrinkers.
> 
> Aha, thanks for reminding. Yes, I missed that memcg-aware part.

Yes, I mean workingset_shadow_shrinker.